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The Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Direction of a Play/Musical is an annual award celebrating achievements in Toronto theatre.
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The Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Direction of a Play/Musical is an annual award celebrating achievements in Toronto theatre.
| Year | Playwright | Title | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu | The Brothers Size | [23] |
| Chris Abraham | Julius Caesar | [24] | |
| Mitchell Cushman | The Flick | ||
| Jani Lauzon | Almighty Voice and His Wife | ||
| Weyni Mengesha | A Streetcar Named Desire | ||
| 2021 | No ceremony held due to the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada on theatre production in 2020. | [25] | |
| 2022 | Soheil Parsa | Wildfire | [26] |
| Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster | Three Women of Swatow | [27] | |
| Weyni Mengesha | Pipeline | ||
| Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu | Is God Is | ||
| John Tiffany | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | ||
| 2023 | Cherissa Richards | Red Velvet | [28] |
| Philip Akin | Maanomaa, My Brother | ||
| Marie Farsi | Fifteen Dogs | ||
| Weyni Mengesha | Queen Goneril | ||
| Alisa Palmer | Fall On Your Knees, Part Two: The Diary | ||
| 2024 | Andrew Kushnir | Bad Roads | [29] |
| Chris Abraham | The Master Plan | [30] | |
| Seth Bockley | King Gilgamesh and the Man of the Wild | ||
| Brendan Healy | The Inheritance, Pt. 1 | ||
| Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu | Sizwe Banzi Is Dead | ||
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